Furry Friends Farm - A Dream Come True

It is with the greatest joy I announce the arrival of Furry Friends Farm (FFF) - a dream come true for all animal lovers and of course - for the animals themselves. Seven members who have been great supporters of RSC and animal welfare and myself went to the farm on November 18.















Here we are in the pix above (from left to right) - Davina Goh, Raihana Souket Ali, (sorry skip the lady with sunglasses on the front of her blouse and husband to her left. Can't remember their names. They came to adopt a dog and not part of our team), continue with Cynthia Hassan, Nick Josh Karean, Sabrina Yeap, Denise Pang and finally Uma Mahendran. The rest of the photos scattered over this blog were taken by me and Nick during the trip.


This farm is run by an elderly couple, Jimmy and his wife, Lucia with the help of Sabrina Yeap formerly animal abuse investigator with the SPCA Selangor. For years all of us have read about Sabrina's tireless work for animals. She is the one that urged the DVS to help Sheena the German Shepherd and carried her frail body out of the house where she was kept starving and tied up.















Now she has joined this elderly couple to help them run the Farm to turn it into a working farm and animal shelter for strays and abandoned pets.


Furry Friends Farm is not just any animal shelter. RSC is tired of seeing animal shelters that just vegetate in one place, waiting for a good Samaritan to bring in a stray only for them to euthanize the stray.

Such shelters seem to be very good at keeping a handful of animals for adoption and to pose for photos for the Press so that the public can keep donating more money to these shelters. There is nothing pro-active that they are doing. Hardly anything to stop abuse, nothing to educate the public and now they have even started charging good Samaritans for bringing in rescued animals.















Enough about these inactive shelters and let's talk about one that should be a model shelter - the Furry Friends Farm. It is unique for these reasons:

1. It has a no-kill policy for all animals.

2. It works with the Independent Pet Rescuers (IPR) who have kindly allowed FFF to have the animals from the shelter at their adoption booth on Saturdays at Plaza Damas, Sri Hartamas. FFF too helps out IPR by giving some of the rescued animals temporary shelter before finding loving homes for them. If you would like to adopt please also go to the Farm or go to www.rescue2rehome.blogspot.com

3. It aims to be self-sustaining by growing chillies, vegetables, producing their own neem and papaya shampoos and many other products to generate income that will go back into feeding and caring for the animals.

4. Sabrina is actively involved in educating the public through many programmes and media coverage. One such coverage was an article featured in Sin Chew in November on animal therapy programmes. The story was about two different people whose health were medically certified to have improved tremendously by caring for animals. Sabrina is hoping to educate the public more about this and a doctor from Hong Kong will be down to give additional training on this matter.

5. FFF engages the public to actively participate in animal welfare through its own programmes and through RSC's activities. FFF refuses to be a dumping ground for abandoned pets and strays and calls on every individual to take responsibility for their pets. If a person rescues a stray then help the work of FFF by spaying and then setting up for adoption through the method described in No.2 above. Please don't just dump animals at FFF without helping out in some way.

If everyone puts in a little bit of help, we will see a great change in Malaysian society. FFF has already paved the way.















Will you now lend a hand to these brave people (Jimmy, Lucia and Sabrina Yeap) who have dared to take this great leap for all animals?